Standish Mellon Asset Management, BNY Mellon's Boston, MA-based fixed income manager, has appointed Federico Garcia Zamora to the newly-created position of senior portfolio manager of currency strategies.

Reporting to Standish Mellon's chief investment officer David Leduc, Zamora will be responsible for making investment recommendations in global currencies for single sector and multi-sector fixed income strategies. He will also manage the firm's upcoming currency absolute return strategies.

Zamora was previously co-manager of the international fixed income, global fixed income and strategic inflation opportunities funds at American Century Investments. Before that he was a currency strategist and portfolio manager at Lehman Brothers Asset Management. 

At the beginning of October, Standish appointed Raman Srivastava to the newly-created position of co-deputy chief investment officer and managing director of global fixed income, with responsibility for overseeing all global and non-US fixed income strategies.

Standish Mellon Asset Management has approximately $104 billion in assets under management.